Exploring Contradictions and Logical Impossibilities
Explore a series of paradoxes and logical puzzles, ranging from being in two places at once to time travel conundrums. Discover the concept of contradictions and logical impossibilities through thought-provoking scenarios and riddles. Dive into the realm of impossibilities and challenge your understanding of reality.
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Contradictions and Logical Impossibilities
Contradiction Right now you are at school. Right now you are at the beach. But you can t be in two places at once It s a contradiction! A contradiction is A contradiction asserts two (or more) things that could not both be true. logically impossible!
Contradiction Find the contradiction You travel in a time machine back to a time before you were born. You are alive (travelling). You are not alive (not yet born). It s a contradiction! It s logically impossible!
Find the logical impossibility As a result of a post-nuclear disaster, a robotic Terminator is built and sent back in time to prevent the disaster from happening. The disaster has happened. The disaster never happens. It s logically impossible!
Are these logically possible? You enter a time machine and travel back 5 years in time. When you arrive, how old will you be? Your kitten Cleo comes with you, but when it is time to leave she can t be found and you have to return alone. Before your travels you didn t lose a kitten 5 years ago, but now it seems you did. What can have happened? When you arrive back in the present, you find a middle aged cat that you realise is Cleo. What should you think?
The wizard says I always lie. Is he telling the truth? Logically possible?
